Microsoft Surface Pro OLED Copilot+
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Primary Camera: 12.2 MPix
Secondary Camera: 9 MPix
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Average of 18 scores (from 31 reviews)
Reviews for the Microsoft Surface Pro OLED Copilot+
Qualcomm launches the new Snapdragon X Elite about nine months after the official announcement - with support from Microsoft and all the major laptop manufacturers. We were able to test the small X1E-78-100 as well as the X1E-80-100 and compare them with current chips from AMD, Apple and Intel. Update: Benchmarks of the Snapdragon X Plus (X1P-64-100)
The 11th generation Surface Pro 2-in-1 has placed its bets on Qualcomm's new Snapdragon ARM processors. A 120 Hz, high-resolution, OLED touchscreen is also optionally available which can hit 900 nits of brightness in HDR mode.
Source: The Verge
Microsoft calls the Surface Pro a 2-in-1. But you can’t really fit two into one without compromising somewhere. It’s less lappable than a laptop and less tablet-y than a tablet, and it costs as much as buying both. But there’s no better tablet to do office work on and no laptop quite this flexible, especially now that you don’t have to choose between decent battery life and the ability to run actual apps without stumbling. Even if you’re sold on the idea of the Surface Pro, the smart move would be to wait six months and see how Arm compatibility shakes out, especially if your work requires any sort of graphics horsepower, you like to game, or you want 5G, which isn’t available yet. You should probably do that. After a month with the Surface Pro 11, I’m not sure I can go back to a regular laptop.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 08/02/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Zdnet.com
Microsoft's Surface Pro 11th edition is an awesome computer for professional artists who want a high-performance machine with a brilliant display. The era of Windows on Arm laptops is finally here, and I can't wait to be a part of it. Prices for the device start at $999.99. My review unit with the 12-core Snapdragon X Elite chipset, 16GB of RAM, and 1TB SSD costs $1,699. However, it's important to note that those prices are without accessories like the Flex keyboard. They cost extra and they're not exactly cheap, with the Flex keyboard and Slim Pen combo running $449.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/07/2024
Source: T3
It may look like the old Surface Pro, but a brighter OLED screen, longer battery life and redesigned keyboard make the 11th Edition the biggest glow-up this family has had for some time. Accessories and upgrades still cost a packet, though, so only shop for what you need. But it's worth it overall: the 2024 Microsoft Surface Pro is a tour de force in the Windows laptop space.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/07/2024
Rating: Total score: 100%
Source: Zdnet.com
The Paint and Photos apps are also loaded with AI-based features for creating and editing images. The options to remove background distractions and use blur effects to simulate portrait mode were useful; the styling options, which transform a photo into an alternate style (Impressionist, Anime, and so on) feel gimmicky. The real question is whether those features are powerful enough to make you switch from your current image-processing tool to one of Microsoft's built-in options. History says that's a pretty big ask. Even if you avoid the AI features completely, though, there's more than enough power in this budget PC. And as long as your apps and hardware requirements aren't exotic, you'll appreciate its cool, quiet operation.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 07/01/2024
Source: Engadget
It's taken 12 years, but Microsoft has finally made an Arm-powered Surface tablet that senior editor Devindra Hardawar doesn't want to toss out of a window. The new Surface Pro, one of the company's first Copilot+ AI PCs, is astoundingly fast and power-efficient, thanks to Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X Elite chip. It can run native Arm apps well — but even better, it can also emulate older apps without much fuss. Basically, Microsoft has finally managed to do what Apple did with its M-series MacBooks four years ago.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/29/2024
Source: Mobile Tech Review
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/29/2024
Source: CNet
The Surface Pro 11 impressed me more than any of the earlier models, and if you're willing to take a little bit of risk with compatibility -- Microsoft's got a lot of software partners lined up to deliver native versions of major applications, but a promise isn't a guarantee -- and that you won't care if a potentially better performing model comes out in a month or two, I recommend it for upgraders. And because I haven't tested the lower-power Snapdragon X Plus, I can't extrapolate how the performance compares for the cheaper models. Or you can wait a few months and know for sure.
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/27/2024
Rating: Total score: 83%
Source: Laptop Mag
The Microsoft Surface Pro (11th Edition) is excellent in many regards, but it’s hard to recommend at this cost when other devices provide a comparable full laptop for considerably less than this $2,000 price tag. However, if you’re OK with spending that much on what is effectively a tablet running Windows 11, the Surface Pro boasts a stunning OLED panel, excellent performance metrics, long-lasting battery life, and a punchy speaker system. In many areas that matter a lot to consumers, it’s a premium device. The Lenovo Slim 7i Gen 9 is an excellent alternative for around $700 cheaper, but if the Surface Pro sounds like the 2-in-1 for you, it’s still a great device if you can stomach its price.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/27/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: CNet
Comparison, online available, Long, Date: 06/27/2024
Source: Matthew Moniz
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/27/2024
Source: PC World
Here’s where I stand: the Surface Pro (2024) 11th Edition shows definite promise. Arm’s CEO didn’t tell me that half of the world’s PCs will eventually run Arm. But you know, there’s a decent case to be made that a chunk of the world’s business/productivity PCs could eventually switch from X86 to Arm. That’s what they need, after all: long battery life and moderate performance. But the Snapdragon X Elite undercuts that. Snapdragons have always been engines of weak to moderately-powered PCs, but with battery life that lasts and lasts. Now, Qualcomm is dashing to become the fastest CPU. And it’s succeeding, at least when plugged in. But on battery, under load — and especially with an unoptimized app that requires it to rev up and rev up hard — Arm’s sacrificing battery life for additional performance.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/27/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Laptop Mag
The Microsoft Surface Pro (11th Edition) is excellent in many regards, but it’s hard to recommend at this cost when other devices provide a comparable full laptop for considerably less than this $2,000 price tag. However, if you’re OK with spending that much on what is effectively a tablet running Windows 11, the Surface Pro boasts a stunning OLED panel, excellent performance metrics, long-lasting battery life, and a punchy speaker system. In many areas that matter a lot to consumers, it’s a premium device. The Lenovo Slim 7i Gen 9 is an excellent alternative for around $700 cheaper, but if the Surface Pro sounds like the 2-in-1 for you, it’s still a great device if you can stomach its price.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/27/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Techradar
The Microsoft Surface Pro 11 has made me a believer in Windows-on-Arm, thanks to its snappy performance, excellent battery life, improved compatibility, and new AI-powered apps that will only get better with time. While some of the Surface Pro 11's quirks from previous generations remain (and new ones get introduced), from its display to its attractive design and upgraded keyboard, this detachable 2-in-1 is the first real competition the iPad Pro has ever really had, and Apple should absolutely be worried.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/26/2024
Rating: Total score: 90% price: 80% performance: 70% mobility: 100% workmanship: 100%
Source: PC Mag
The 2024 Microsoft Surface Pro is a beautiful product that retains the legacy of one of the best-designed tablets ever made. The OLED display and detachable Flex Pro keyboard are genuinely exciting refinements to Microsoft's already stellar tablet design. But Microsoft has yoked the latest Surface Pro to Qualcomm's Arm-based Snapdragon hardware, and that's not a clear winner yet. Our own testing attempts show that this cake may need some more time in the oven, even if it is a big step forward for competing processor options. The CPU muscle is mostly there, but a new CPU paradigm needs a revolutionary opportunity to make this play work. The AI era of PCs may be that perfect moment, but right now, we're not dazzled.
Single Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/26/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: JerryRigEverything
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Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/26/2024
Source: Engadget
The Surface Pro is fast, stylish and, together with the Flex keyboard, lets me work comfortably almost anywhere. While I'd love to see a different kickstand design eventually, and I think the keyboards should definitely be cheaper, Microsoft has done the impossible with the Surface Pro Copilot+ PC: It's created an Arm-based Surface I don't hate. I dare say, I love it.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/26/2024
Rating: Total score: 87%
Source: Tom's Guide
The Microsoft Surface Pro 11 is the best version of the company’s 2-in-1 laptops thanks to its fast and efficient Snapdragon X Elite chip, new OLED screen option and incredible battery life. Though its AI features are half-baked and its peripherals are too expensive, this is still the most exciting Surface Pro 11 in years.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 06/25/2024
Rating: Total score: 80%
Source: Mash IT
Single Review, online available, Short, Date: 06/20/2024
Source: Mash IT
Hands-On, online available, Very Long, Date: 06/18/2024
Source: Tom's Guide
The Microsoft Surface Pro 11 ($999 to start) is the first Windows tablet Microsoft has shipped with an OLED screen, and the first to pack Qualcomm's Snapdragon X chips inside. Those two additions make this the most exciting Surface Pro in ages, potentially offering meaningful performance improvements over older models like the Surface Pro 9 without any price increase.
Single Review, online available, Long, Date: 06/18/2024
Source: Tom's Guide
The Surface Pro line has been in dire need of a shot in the arm for some time, and Microsoft may have delivered it in the Surface Pro 11. While the base model could deliver meaningful improvements over its predecessors for the same price if the Snapdragon X Plus chip is as good as advertised, I have to admit it's the OLED upgrade that has my attention. It's a small thing that could make this Windows 11 slate feel a lot more premium, especially if it can deliver vivid colors in tandem with killer battery life. We're looking forward to finding out exactly how well these tablets live up to the hype in a full review, so stay tuned!
Hands-On, online available, Short, Date: 05/21/2024
Source: Trusted Reviews
It’s still the same looking machine, yet this could be a massive upgrade for the Surface Pro line. With huge performance promises, extended battery life and a lovely new OLED display there’s certainly a lot to get excited by here.
Hands-On, online available, Short, Date: 05/21/2024
Source: Dave 2D
Hands-On, online available, Medium, Date: 05/21/2024
Source: Matthew Moniz
Comparison, online available, Medium, Date: 05/21/2024
Source: Engadget
Microsoft's new Surface Pro, its first hybrid Copilot+ PC tablet, doesn't look much different than its predecessors. It's still a sleek and sturdy tablet with a kickstand. But the screen looks a bit more impressive, thanks to slimmer bezels, and it's potentially more useful on the go when paired with the $350 Surface Pro Flex keyboard, which lets you type wirelessly. As a Copilot+ AI PC though, its true value lies under the hood, thanks to a 45TOPS neural processing unit in Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite and X Plus chips.
Single Review, online available, Medium, Date: 05/21/2024
Foreign Reviews
Source: Chip.de
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 10/17/2024
Rating: Total score: 94% performance: 95% features: 90% display: 99% mobility: 95% ergonomy: 89%
Source: Computerbild
DE→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/06/2024
Rating: Total score: 92%
Source: Les Numeriques
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Very Long, Date: 07/19/2024
Rating: Total score: 60% performance: 80% display: 80% mobility: 100% workmanship: 80%
Source: Journal du Geek
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Long, Date: 07/17/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
Source: CNet France
FR→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/01/2024
Rating: Total score: 70%
Source: Zive
CZ→ENSingle Review, online available, Short, Date: 07/15/2024
Rating: Total score: 90%
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Series:
Microsoft Surface Pro (2017) is the fifth generation in the Surface Pro family. The Surface Pro is solid as a rock and exudes a sense of futuristic quality. It’s also well-designed, with a look and feels that, while minimally changed from the Surface Pro 4, is still an improvement. The corners are more rounded, and the exhaust vents along the edges are less pronounced. There aren’t many moving parts in the Surface Pro itself. The power and volume buttons along the top are easy to find by feel, and have a crisp action, while the kickstand is smooth and reliably holds the tablet at chosen angle. It now opens up to 165 degrees, an increase from the Surface Pro 4, which opened 150 degrees. Fully flexed, the kickstand can turn Surface Pro into a nearly-flat slate. If a user decides to flip into tablet mode for a moment and fold back the Type Cover, the keyboard will turn off when the cover is tucked back. It can even switch Windows 10 into tablet mode if desired. It attaches to the tablet with strong magnets and connects via a physical port, meaning there’s zero lag when typing. The Surface Pro sports two front-firing speakers on each side of the display. There are small cutouts in the glass to let the sound through, and the design provides impressive sound for a tablet. Music is great, with surprising range, and there’s even a hint of bass. The speakers also get surprisingly loud and can fill a decent sized room without distorting.
The Surface Pro features up to a seventh-generation Intel Core i7, 16GB of RAM, and a 1TB SSD. It is seen that the Surface Pro offers a cutting-edge CPU, solid RAM and SSD options, and full support for all of Microsoft’s most innovative Windows 10 technologies. All that will keep the machine relevant for years to come. The Surface Pro is refreshingly light on bloatware. While it’s stocked with the usual Microsoft Windows 10 apps and a handful of casual games, it’s otherwise unencumbered with junk software. The Surface utility is also a nice app that offers the ability to configure the Surface Pen and get some useful information about your machine. Microsoft is using a 45-watt-hour battery in the Surface Pro, which is an increase from the 38 watt-hour battery that was packed into the Surface Pro 4. The Surface Pro also uses more efficient seventh-generation Intel Core processors. Taken together, the new model offers improved battery life over its predecessor. The Surface Pro is eminently portable, at 0.33 inches thick and 1.73 pounds. Even with the Signature Type Cover attached, the machine is easy to carry around and slip into a bag. It might not be quite as thin and light as the iPad Pro, but it’s also a much more powerful machine that can run real PC applications. The Surface Pro bring a whole new meaning to the word tablet. It is a iPad like device but is actually a real computer.
Hands-on article by Jagadisa Rajarathnam
Qualcomm Adreno X1-85 3.8 TFLOPS: An integrated graphics adapter that four Qualcomm Snapdragon X processors feature, as of Sep 2024. It has 1,536 unified shaders at its disposal that are said to run at up to 1,250 MHz. The underlying architecture is reportedly in many respects the same as what was used in the Adreno 730. While thankfully faster than the aging Intel Iris Xe (96 EUs), the Adreno fails to match the Radeon 780M meaning Baldur's Gate 3, a triple-A title released in 2023, is barely playable at 1080p on low with 23 fps on average. Triple-A games of 2024 fare even worse, in no small part due to Qualcomm's subpar graphics drivers.
Modern games should be playable with these graphics cards at low settings and resolutions. Casual gamers may be happy with these cards.
» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Graphics Cards and the corresponding Benchmark List.
SD X Elite X1E-80-100: A pretty fast ARM architecture processor (SoC) for use in Windows laptops. The X1E-80-100 is the second-fastest member of the Snapdragon X series, as of May 2024; as such, it has 12 Oryon CPU cores running at up to 4.0 GHz, the 3.8 TFLOPS Adreno X1-85 GPU, the 45 TOPS Hexagon NPU and an impressively fast LPDDR5x-8448 memory controller. USB 4.0, TB 4 and PCIe 4 support is onboard, too.» Further information can be found in our Comparison of Mobile Processsors.
13.00":
This range of display format is largely the upper limit for tablets and the lower limit for subnotebooks.
The advantage of subnotebooks is that the entire laptop can be small in size and therefore easily portable. The tiny display has the added advantage of requiring little power, which further improves battery life and thus mobility. The disadvantage is that reading texts is exhausting for the eyes. High resolutions, which one is used to from a standard laptop, are almost not usable.
The same applies to tablets in this size range.
» To find out how fine a display is, see our DPI List.Microsoft:
Microsoft smartphones and tablets have been tested since 2012. There are many reviews with average ratings. The reader's interest is quite given, but the market share is not big enough for the Top 5 smartphone manufacturers (as of 2016).
81.17%: This rating is slightly above average, there are somewhat more devices with worse ratings. However, clear purchase recommendations look different.
» Further information can be found in our Notebook Purchase Guide.
